Vanuatu - The Road to the World Cup

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:04

kostas22 wrote:FM program makes these decisions, not ADx. So he can't be 'made' to be a player/coach. Once a player enters the database the user no longer has control over them.

I am aware of that, but since ADx_Wales redoes the database as he said he was, he could change him into a player-coach, therefore not taking him out of active competition.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:18

Klon wrote:
kostas22 wrote:FM program makes these decisions, not ADx. So he can't be 'made' to be a player/coach. Once a player enters the database the user no longer has control over them.

I am aware of that, but since ADx_Wales redoes the database as he said he was, he could change him into a player-coach, therefore not taking him out of active competition.

To be old enough to achieve that, it still puts the player at a very high risk of being automatically retired very quickly. So it's not really a sensible option...

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:25

How depressing all this chat is. I'm 40 this year guys, have a heart! As if that wasn't bad enough, Cambridge United?! Dear oh dear.

I'll gladly have my age reduced if it means my doddery old legs have a few runouts before I retire....

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:26

Ok, the following players are those in the Vanuatu National Squad/Roster/Rotisserie that were picked up by Club sides on the database, all you have to do is either Agree to play for the club from the start of the game or remain a free agent and hope the team that picked you the first time, dont.

Goalkeepers:

Jean Denis Alcatraz - Chesterfield (English League 2, the 4th tier of the English Game, dont ask why its called league 2) 12 starts in the 07-08 season, 22 goals conceded at club level, average rating of 6.17 out of 10
Ashley Watkinson - Oxford United (Blue Square Premier, the 5th tier of the English Game, again dont ask why) 14 starts 19 conceded, average rating of 6.21
Kay lon is still a free agent

Defenders

Asher Ormken - Wellington Phoenix (Australian Hyundai A-League, the only professional league in australia) 8 starts, 1 goal (doesnt say how many conceded) ave: 6.13 (Bear in mind these are your CLUB average ratings, not your Vanuatu match ratings)
Axeman Einarsson, Ed Kevin and David Kozco are still free agents.

Midfielders

David McFaste- Accrington Stanley (I'll just leave this one as it is....

no need to explain)
Jack Christoperson - Cardiff City (Coca Cola Championship, the GP2 of English football) Currently stuck in the Reserves , have not been picked for any first team matches.
Ashley Lilly - Preston North End (Coca Cola Championship) Currently in the reserves, but 1 first team match and one on as a substitute.
Alasdair Lindsay - Gretna (Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League), apparently they dont exist.
Ron Mignolet - La Louviere (Belgian Third Division A) 7 games for first team, Ave: 6.29

Daniel Martins and Thomas De Bock are still free agents

Attackers

Barry Morrison - Partick Thistle (Indy Lights/Nationwide Cup Series of Scottish Football) 14 games and 8 goals , Ave: 7.14
Joe Emberton - HKFC, yes thats right, HONG KONG FC, one of 10 teams from the nation of Hong Kong, there is no league in the game for this team, however, 3 games and 2 assists, ave: 7.00

Johannes Rydzek is a free agent

Chris Dagnall is already a Rochdale player, no need to free agent him, anyway, he's our Just Fontaine.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:36

kostas22 wrote:
Klon wrote:
kostas22 wrote:FM program makes these decisions, not ADx. So he can't be 'made' to be a player/coach. Once a player enters the database the user no longer has control over them.

I am aware of that, but since ADx_Wales redoes the database as he said he was, he could change him into a player-coach, therefore not taking him out of active competition.

To be old enough to achieve that, it still puts the player at a very high risk of being automatically retired very quickly. So it's not really a sensible option...

I think the problem lies in the fact that I made him a Player/Coach in the database anyway, if i simply remove his coaching abilities, it stops him from retiring sooner.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:44

ADx_Wales wrote:Daniel Martins and Thomas De Bock are still free agents

I am absolutely disgusted. I though those *amazing* performances against Pakistan and Malaysa had ended up garanteeing me one top team at least...

Top team from 2nd Armenian division that is! :lol:

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 04 Jan 2012, 23:10

ADx_Wales wrote:Ok, the following players are those in the Vanuatu National Squad/Roster/Rotisserie that were picked up by Club sides on the database, all you have to do is either Agree to play for the club from the start of the game or remain a free agent and hope the team that picked you the first time, dont.

Defenders
Axeman Einarsson, Ed Kevin and David Kozco are still free agents.

Þorvaldur 'Axeman' Einarsson wrote:Have words with Þór Akureyri and see if they're interested. Club football should be interesting. As will the casualty list at Akureyri hospital...

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 04 Jan 2012, 23:46

Is itRAA Louviéroise or UR La Louvière Centre i'm playing for?
considering the first one is renamed FC Charleroi, it's probably the second, i hope so, because RAAL has a lot of mafia-related history, and by that i don't mean gambling, but investors actually being called in murder cases...

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 05 Jan 2012, 00:59

ADx_Wales wrote:Alasdair Lindsay - Gretna (Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League), apparently they dont exist.

THEY DON'T F***ING EXIST.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Jan 2012, 04:37

ADx_Wales wrote:Joe Emberton - HKFC, yes thats right, HONG KONG FC, one of 10 teams from the nation of Hong Kong, there is no league in the game for this team, however, 3 games and 2 assists, ave: 7.00

What.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 05 Jan 2012, 06:24

Preston eh? That makes me the best player in the squad. I DEMAND CAPTAINCY :lol:

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Jan 2012, 17:14

This wrote:Is itRAA Louviéroise or UR La Louvière Centre i'm playing for?
considering the first one is renamed FC Charleroi, it's probably the second, i hope so, because RAAL has a lot of mafia-related history, and by that i don't mean gambling, but investors actually being called in murder cases...

It's RAAL I'm afraid. But they're in Belgian Third Division A at the start of this game, which begins in the summer of 2007...

kostas22 wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:Alasdair Lindsay - Gretna (Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League), apparently they dont exist.

THEY DON'T B**HPL**ING EXIST.

...but at the start of 2007 they do... :-S.... but that is a giant "NO" of Flaming Papayan proportions.

...as for everyone else? I havent had yes or no from you yet.

The Lukas · Post by **The Lukas** » 05 Jan 2012, 19:37

ADx_Wales wrote:
Johannes Rydzek is a free agent

I wonder whether the clubs from Germany and from Austria or exotic country, interested,to my person :lol:

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 05 Jan 2012, 20:47

ADx_Wales wrote:
This wrote:Is itRAA Louviéroise or UR La Louvière Centre i'm playing for?
considering the first one is renamed FC Charleroi, it's probably the second, i hope so, because RAAL has a lot of mafia-related history, and by that i don't mean gambling, but investors actually being called in murder cases...

It's RAAL I'm afraid. But they're in Belgian Third Division A at the start of this game, which begins in the summer of 2007...

yes then it's RAAL, at that point they were in huge financial trouble (mind you that this is a team that played in Uefa cup some years before) Oh just great...

(by the way, i'm okay with that team, ending up with one of the most questionable teams ever in Belgium is pure rejectfulness)

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Jan 2012, 21:47

ADx_Wales wrote:...as for everyone else? I havent had yes or no from you yet.

Oh right - I don't really mind staying at Hong Kong for the lulz.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Jan 2012, 22:11

Just realised what division HKFC were in...

...didnt know there was a Second Division in Hong Kong....

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Jan 2012, 22:25

ADx_Wales wrote:Just realised what division HKFC were in...

...didnt know there was a Second Division in Hong Kong....

Alright! Second Division in Hong Kong! Go me!

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 05 Jan 2012, 22:39

ADx_Wales wrote:I call it 4-5(3)-1(3), but in some games its regarded as 4-1-4-1, its a formation used by certain top flight underdog teams in the early 2000s, such as Bolton Wanderers, at the time managed by Sam Allardyce, which kept them in the Premier League, which they still are to this day.

4-5-1 is the reason we are not in the Premier League, only manager I know that uses it is that Scottish twat Alex McLeish. Since he was a player, I may have to add him to the list of my least favourite players.

AdrianSutil wrote:Preston eh? That makes me the best player in the squad. I DEMAND CAPTAINCY

Cardiff City > Preston North End

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 06 Jan 2012, 00:01

Is there still a space available?
The Fox would like to enter

DOB: Unknown, though he was born in 1979 (making him 33 in 2012)
Nationality: Il est un canadien
Height: He measures in centimetres anyways! uhh 200 cm
Favourite teams: Manchester United... that's about it.
Least Favourite Teams: Manchester City.... that's abiut it.
Favourite players: Anyone who can score goals is good for him!
Least favourite player: Owen Hargreaves

Position preference: Goaltender, but anything will do

JeanDenisAlcatraz · Post by **JeanDenisAlcatraz** » 06 Jan 2012, 00:28

ADx_Wales wrote:David McFaste- Accrington Stanley (I'll just leave this one as it is.... no need to explain)

Who are they...?

JeremyMcClean wrote:Position preference: Goaltender, but anything will do

Do they play hockey in Vanuatu?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 06 Jan 2012, 00:41

JeanDenisAlcatraz wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:David McFaste- Accrington Stanley (I'll just leave this one as it is.... no need to explain)

Who are they...?

Exactly.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 06 Jan 2012, 00:53

kostas22 wrote:
JeanDenisAlcatraz wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:David McFaste- Accrington Stanley (I'll just leave this one as it is.... no need to explain)

Who are they...?

Exactly.

Aw, get off!

Gimme some!

(I pity those from outside the UK for not getting this in-joke...)

Post by **tommykl** » 06 Jan 2012, 11:48

dinizintheoven wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
JeanDenisAlcatraz wrote:Who are they...?

Exactly.

Aw, get off!

Gimme some!

(I pity those from outside the UK for not getting this in-joke...)

I understood it

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 06 Jan 2012, 17:51

JeremyMcClean wrote:Is there still a space available?
The Fox would like to enter

DOB: Unknown, though he was born in 1979 (making him 33 in 2012)
Nationality: Il est un canadien
Height: He measures in centimetres anyways! uhh 200 cm
Favourite teams: Manchester United... that's about it.
Least Favourite Teams: Manchester City.... that's abiut it.
Favourite players: Anyone who can score goals is good for him!
Least favourite player: Owen Hargreaves

Position preference: Goaltender, but anything will do

-Do I call your player "Fox", "Fox McClean" or "Jeremy McLean"?

-200cm is VERY tall, I have enough GKs, The only feasible options would be for you to either be a tall striker, ideal for heading in set-piece goals, or the opposite, a tall defender, heading clear any attacks from set pieces. I have enough Strikers, you will be Defensive, I hope you wont mind that.

Least favourite player: Owen Hargreaves

- Really? Would have thought Canada's finest soccer palyer would be in your good books, or is it that he decided to be part of the England setup, or was it the switch from red to light blue? Or Both? It was both wasn't it? OK no issue here, Welcome to the team.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 06 Jan 2012, 18:15

What's wrong with a player being 6'6?

He does not mind being a defense man, he's actually a very brilliant one. The only things he can't do with his height is kick long distance (i.e. go from one side of the field to another, he can only go to mid-field) and his accuracy is WAY off.

The Fox (To be called "Fox" on the jerseys) would like to reserve the #69 Jersey, if possible.

The main reason he does not like Hargreaves is that he spends his days in the locker room and not on the field! He also doesn't like the fact that he crossed from being a Canadian to a Englishman (The Fox has German decent, you see)

I now realize that it's called a goalkeeper, not a goaltender :S

Does he need to sign for a team? If so, he's trying to get into the reserve squad for the Chicago Fire S.C.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 06 Jan 2012, 18:24

You'll be a free agent, a club from ANYWHERE in the world will eventually sign you up, the jersey number will only occur in certain leagues in this game; Premier League, MLS, Serie A etc. It is unlikely that you will be given the number 69, its a rare sight in soccer.

The world cup is different, because the rules state you can only have 23 players available for selection in the world cup finals, thus the only numbers available on the back of jerseys are the numbers 1 to 23.

World cup Qualifiers and "Friendlies" are different again, the traditional numbers of 1 to 11 at the start of each matchup, the #1 is ALWAYS the Goalkeeper, traditionally the numbers 2-6 are used for defensive players, the numbers 7-11 for attackers, but that can be manipulated for strategic purposes. Replacements will have numbers 12 to 20 depending on how many replacements that are allowed to be on the "bench" during the game.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 01:12

Corners 6 (out of 20)
Finishing 3
Passing 5
Technique 7
Determination 10 (out of 20 meaning his efforts are half arsed...)

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 21:20

Last Call for players to add to the Vanuatu Squad, We're somehow with 20, three more for a full World Cup Finals Squad.

Ron Mignolet (This), do you want to remain with RAAL?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 07 Jan 2012, 21:23

If you need another player, perhaps change Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma F.C.) from Italian to Vanuatian nationality :lol:

(He's one of my drivers at Scuderia Alitalia)

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 21:33

kostas22 wrote:If you need another player, perhaps change Alessandro Lucarelli (Parma F.C.) from Italian to Vanuatian nationality
(He's one of my drivers at Scuderia Alitalia)

Thy will has been done. And whoop, an extra defender!

OK , two to go, one Central midfielder, and....oh what the hell one more striker.

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:05

If you need a striker, Lucaralli's brother is one (former Serie A top scorer) :lol:

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:26

QuickYoda41 wrote:If you need a striker, Lucaralli's brother is one (former Serie A top scorer)

But he's a communist! HWNSNBM will never approve of his political stance being present in his dictatorship.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:28

If his brother has Italian First Team caps then I cant....no wait I totally can.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:33

ADx_Wales wrote:Last Call for players to add to the Vanuatu Squad, We're somehow with 20, three more for a full World Cup Finals Squad.

Ron Mignolet (This), do you want to remain with RAAL?

Yes, he confirmed that he is staying. He is not forced to say this by a guy standing next to him with a gun.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:35

Can I enter a player

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:48

eurobrun wrote:Can I enter a player

Yes, but basically he has to be a central midfielder a-la Stevie G.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:49

This wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:Last Call for players to add to the Vanuatu Squad, We're somehow with 20, three more for a full World Cup Finals Squad.

Ron Mignolet (This), do you want to remain with RAAL?

Yes, he confirmed that he is staying. He is not forced to say this by a guy standing next to him with a gun.

I believe you, and no I'm not cashing this checque.

Jack O Melley · Post by **Jack O Melley** » 07 Jan 2012, 22:55

As I said a couple of pages before, here's my player:

Giovanni Roda
Position: Striker
Date of Birth: 25/8/1987
Nationality: Vanuatan
Height: 1.85m
Favourite Teams: Juventus F.C., Ascoli Calcio 1898
Least Favourite teams: no one in particular
Favourite Players or Ex Players: Alessandro Del Piero, Roberto Baggio, Gianluigi Buffon, Osariemen Ebagua, Lisandro Lòpez
Least Favourite players or ex players: Marco Materazzi

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 07 Jan 2012, 23:02

Jack O Melley wrote:Giovanni Roda

I hope he ends up at Roda JC

who calls their team after a fictional reject driver anyway? (yes i know it means recht op doel af, but shhht)

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Jan 2012, 23:08

Jack O Melley wrote:As I said a couple of pages before, here's my player:

Giovanni Roda
Position: Striker
Date of Birth: 25/8/1987
Nationality: Vanuatan
Height: 1.85m
Favourite Teams: Juventus F.C., Ascoli Calcio 1898
Least Favourite teams: no one in particular
Favourite Players or Ex Players: Alessandro Del Piero, Roberto Baggio, Gianluigi Buffon, Osariemen Ebagua, Lisandro Lòpez
Least Favourite players or ex players: Marco Materazzi

Welcome to the Team.

And Finally, that Central Mifielder.....